During the past week, I have run a workshop demonstrating four fancy fold Christmas cards. In fact, the workshop extended into another session, as I didn’t take into account how much work we actually had to do! (Note to self, 2 fancy folds is enough in one session!)
This card is one of the ones we made. Probably the most technical and certainly a challenge to follow my own hand written instructions!
Lots of the materials were from the Whimsy and Wonder suite. I used 12 x 12 basic card stock for the base, but because it is not very stiff, I used lots of layers to help support it.
I wanted a cracker like feel to the card. The Basic edge dies were perfect to achieve this effect, and this is what took a lot of time….12 edges to die cut for each card!
I didn’t use Stampin’ Up! dies for the central aperture, as they were not big enough for it.
The gorgeous Whimsy and Wonder specialty designer series papers were used to decorate this fancy fold card. They are foiled on one side and so pretty. In fact they are so beautiful that its hard to decide which side to use, and in fact, some of the workshop attendees used the opposite side to what I used in my sample card. I stamped some of the Whimsical trees and the coloured baubles on to the central panel. To finish I added some Crystal Shimmery effects to make those pretty baubles shimmer.
To order any of the products used to make this fancy fold card, click on the images below.
Today I sat and looked at all my stamps and thought…..what haven’t I used recently? Its way too easy to forget about those stamps you bought when they launched and then have pushed them to one side once new stamps are released. So, I flicked through my pile of stamps and decided to use a couple of stamp sets that I haven’t used for quite some time because before we know it another new catalogue will be out and again those unused stamps will be pushed to the back. I also didn’t want to use the main focal images on the stamps, but I did want stamped textured background on a birthday card. So, I used Tasteful Touches and also used Free as a Bird stamps.
Pretty Birthday Card with Tasteful Touches stamp
I used Gorgeous Grape and Granny Apple Green for my card layers and stamped onto some basic white in Memento black and Granny Apple Green. The flowers are stamped onto some white card, coloured with Stampin’ blends and then fussy cut – who doesn’t love a bit of fussy cutting? And then, I cut slightly into the centre of some flowers and gently eased the petals to give some dimension. I layered one flower on top of another, making sure NOT to line up the petals for a more realistic effect.
The square shaped ‘blocks’ add a lovely bit of texture and interest to the background.
I added a mat layer inside and stamped and coloured one of the flowers inside too.
What do you think to this birthday card with Tasteful Touches?
Shop any of the products I used by clicking on the images below
If you were at this weeks Coffee and a Card, then you will have had the opportunity to make this card.
Do you think you would like to make cards like these? Live local to Boston, UK? Why not pop along to The Mallard on a Monday morning and join our friendly group? Please note; from November 8th we will be meeting at 11:30AM due to winter opening hours.
If you are a complete beginner to card making and papercrafts and would like to learn more, watch out for beginners card making classes starting in the New Year. Sign up to my newsletter (at the top of this page) to keep informed.
Earlier in the summer, I ran a workshop using the lovely Hand-Penned Petals Memories & More card pack. If you haven’t seen or used memory & More packs, they are great for some quick and easy cards as well as for using for scrapbooking and using in the scrap book pockets – a quick and easy way to scrapbook!
To Purchase the Memories and More card pack , click here
You get so much…
50 printed card elements – 36 3”x4”, and 14 4”x6”.
4 sheets of stickers
And then you can get co-ordinating cards and envelopes;
You get 20 cards and co ordinating envelopes in this pack
To purchase The Hand Penned Petals Memories and More card blanks and Co-ordinating envelopes – this pack, click here
Anyhow, we had lots of fun and made our own cards using the supplies from these kits.
Here is a selection of some of the cards, and I still have loads more cards left over so can make plenty more!
Memories and More card packs were originally designed as an easy way to scrap book….Album, pre made photo pockets, and a variety of card packs to individualise as you wish. This is a great way of recording those precious memories, be it from a new arrival, a holiday or just for the fun of it. Below are some of what is available right now. Click on any of them to be taken straight to my shop!
You only have to look around the shops to know its ‘that time of year’ approaching!
The summer has flown by with holidays, grandchildren and the dreaded Covid, and also the redesigning of my website, but now a sort of normality is happening.
Craft groups are restarting, my Coffee and a Card group starts next Monday (contact me for more info), and today i’m working on upcoming workshops and thought it was time to share a Christmas card to get you all in the mood! So it was time to get playing with some of the new products I got back in July!
I’ve used the Whimsical Trees and co-ordinating Whimsy and Wonder papers, all available in the July to December mini catalogue. (Don’t have a copy? contact me – to get one sent out, UK only).
I heat embossed the snowflakes from the Penguin Place stamp set in silver to add more sparkle to the sentiment.
This is such a pretty set. Love the non traditional colours of the papers, some sheets are foiled (this one is but don’t think it shows too well in the photos, and that ribbon….Glittered Organdy ribbon, has beautiful shimmery tiny sequins embedded…it is gorgeous.
I am doing a ribbon share, so if you would like 1 metre of each of the 9 ribbons in the July-December mini catalogue, then get in touch…..they are not all Christmassy.
I put my website into ‘maintenance back in May, and where has time gone? I’ve still been crafting – well, until I went on holiday mid June, but then I’ve had technical issues with the upgrade of my website, along with catching Covid which knocked me off my feet for a few days. So, these are actually cards I made prior to my holiday to Cornwall and some I have demonstrated on my Facebook page.
Color & Contour meets Very Versailles
I know…its flowers again! But, I love this set…so simple to use and so many colours possible…you can never make 2 cards the same!
This card used a base of Granny Apple Green, a layer of Gorgeous Grape and then stamping onto Whisper White – yes I’m not onto my basic white stock yet!!
I stamped the cards in Fresh Freesia and Gorgeous Grape and then used Granny Apple Green for the ‘vines which were from the Very Versailles set
I die cut the smallest Scalloped Contour die in white and stamped the sentiment from the Color & Contour set. After sticking the top two layers together, i wound some white bakers twine around before attaching the sentiment.
To finish off, I added a stamped image to the inside on a layer of white.
I love how these colours go together and give the card a real’pop, what do you think?
My lovely upline, Zoe Tant, showed a group of us (her) team members how to make this next card.
Its far easier than it looks, and is a bit like sticking a card within a card!
You will need;
Card base 23cm x 10.8cm scored at 14cm
Coloured card 22.8cm x 10.8cm scored at 14cm
Coloured card (layer) 10.5cm x 8.5cm
DSP (patterned paper) 10.2 x 8.2
additional dies cuts to embellish
To make;
Adhere the back of the largest piece of coloured card to the back of the base card at the hinge, leaving the front section ‘hanging.
Attach the DSP onto the layer, and then fasten to front of card.
Add your stamped and die cut images, remembering that the middle layer and back layer hang below the front, so what ever is placed in the centre or back may show. (I carefully stamped ‘friend’ so I knew you could see it fully from the front.
I used sentiments from Daisy Lane stamp set
This card works equally as well orientated on its side….why not have a go?
I’ve had Butterfly Brilliance Stamp set and the co-ordinating Brilliant wings dies for a while now, but not shown them to you until today!
I love how British these stamps are….so like our butterflies. They have so much details and the dies are stunning!
Yes, they are one large stamp, but by clever positioning of your paper, there is no need to stamp or die cut all of the butterflies in one go.
I made 1 card before hand using the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder on Sahara Sand card stock, to give it a lovely faux wall background. I coloured the butterflies with blends…Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody, Blackberyy Bliss and So Saffron.
The cards I made Live, used soon to be retiring DSP (Designer Series Papers).
The first card used Forever Greenery, layered onto a Garden Green card base. The butterflies were coloured with Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight and Balmy blue blends for the outside, and a smaller butterfly was added to the inside which was coloured in Pumpkin Pie.
After the Live session had finished, I added a few Holiday Rhinestone jewels
The second card used Artisan Blooms DSP, on a layer of Pumpkin Pie. This time the butterfly was die cut from a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and again some Holiday Rhinestones to embellish.
Sentiments for these cards were all taken from the Many Messages stamp set and the coordinating Messages Dies.
The Butterflies are from the upcoming Annual Catalogue, but are available now. The Many Messages is from the January to June Mini Catalogue.
Don’t forget the brand new Annual Catalogue will be available later this month. If you are not a regular customer, but would like a catalogue, please use the ‘contact me’ tab above, and I will get one to you.
During yesterdays Craft and Chat session, I demonstrated a Corner Flip fancy fold card. I got the inspiration for this card from a video by Rachel Tessman.
This card uses the discontinued Berry Blessings stampset and Berry Delightful DSP
For those who were not with us, and those who didn’t get their card finished, here are the instructions;
You will need:-
Standard A5 card base
Dsp 10×14.4cm x2 (one for outside, one for inside)
Paper trimmer
Stampset and sentiment to decorate
Additional card for layer if desired
Scrap of paper 7.5×7.5cm or post it note 3″ square will do the same job
Pencil, ruler, eraser
Cover the front of your card base with DSP, taking care to not leave any parts unstuck, as when you cut through you don’t want any loose edges.
Take the scrap paper/post it note and measure 1cm from the top left corner down the left side and make a mark.
Do the same from the bottom right corner along the bottom
This should be a 7.5cm square!!
Lay this paper onto the top right of your card, lining up the top and right sides
Transfer the lines onto your card, but include around the bottom left corner too
These lines will be on your DSP not on the blank card as shown
Carefully line up the lines on the cutting guide of your paper trimmer and cut along between the marks
Take care not to cut right to the edges!
Very gently bend the top right corner of the card forward, pivoting on the 1cm edge pieces, until it reaches the front of the card and is square to the rest of the card. Once happy crease these edges so that it lays flat
Gently manipulate the fold
The top of your card should look like this!
And when stamped and layered and an insert added to the inside, should look like this !
Yes…it says Christmas card! This is the first one I’ve made this year, so think I can be excused!
I’ve done a couple of Facebook Lives using the Circle Celebration stamp set, and I’ve had the large stamp keep jumping out at me saying ‘moon’, so I thought I’d have a play and see what I could do.
I used a Seaside Spray card layer to stamp some trees from the ‘Rooted in Nature’ stamp set in memento black ink on the base of the card.
Then using one of the fabulous new blending brushes (Jan to June catalogue), I first used Misty Moonlight and then Night of Navy ink pads to give a little depth around the edges.
On a separate piece of white card I used Mango Melody, Flirty Flamingo and Highland Heather on the ‘moon’ stamp, carefully sweeping the ink pad across ensuring I used the lightest colour first so as not to contaminate my ink pads. When i had all three colours on the stamp, I gave it a quick ‘huff’ to ensure the ink was still wet and stamped onto my white card. I then die cut it with 4th from smallest layering circle die. This die is slightly smaller than the stamped image, but worked perfectly as I didn’t want a white border around my ‘moon’.
I then stamped the spotty stamp from the Dressed to Impress stamp set with Versamark ink, applied white embossing powder and heat set to give a snowy look. The sentiment was from Itty Bitty Christmas. The sentiment and moon where adhered on Dimensionals.
To finish, I used the Stampin’ Chalk Marker around the edges of the trees and also popped a little Wink of Stella to make them glisten.
Hope you’ve enjoyed learning how I made this card. Keep checking in for more.
If you didn’t already know….Stampin’Up!s spring summer mini catalogue will be launched on Tuesday January 5th 2021! And not just that catalogue… the fabulous Sale-a-bration catalogue too!
The Mini catalogue runs from Jan 5th until June 30th 2021 and complements the annual catalogue which is available until May 3rd 2021. (If you dont have a catalogue (either annual or mini) and would like one, then please use the contact me tab above and I will get one out to you (UK only).
On todays Facebook live I demo’d a couple of new products…The garden Wishes Stamp Set, The Darling Donkeys Stampset (Free with £45 spend from Jan 5th) and the gorgeous new Blending brushes!
If you’d like to see how I made these and how to use the blending brushes, checkout my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/thestampingbooth
In Good Taste is the DSP (designer series paper) that I am using this week in the blog hop. This is another of the paper packs that are on offer until the end of October. Drop me a note if you’d like to order.
My three cards are all the same this week, but show how different they can look in different colour ways.
The first card uses Night of Navy for its main colour, and the stamp set used is Tasteful Textures. The die cut leaves are from varies die sets and are cut in the lovely new Brushed Metallic papers
The second has a Petal Pink base, Petal Pink flower and Gray Granite stamping. This time the dies cuts are in Silver foil paper
Finally, the third card base is Early Espresso, with Old Olive die cut pieces and a Daffodil Delight flower coloured with Stampin Blends.
Hope you pop over to the other blogs to see all the other fab ideas with DSP and it inspires you to get your papers out and use them!
I don’t think anyone would describe me as a cat or dog person. Although we have had both as pets over the many years we have been married.
Playful Pets DSP;
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I got this Designer series paper (DSP) left over from a paper share, so though this a great opportunity to see what I can do with it.
I have made 3 projects this week, all with very little stamping, so making the DSP work do all the work for me.
The first card was cat themed and I used one cat from the DSP as my focal point and then adhered it to some fancy labels from the Tasteful labels die set
And then I played with the dogs…..
A LOT of fussy cutting here, but a cute card for the dog lovers out there!!
And finally I made a really useful, decent sized box! It is 4” square and I thought the colour scheme leant itself to being festive, so I added a Christmas tag to the front
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Hope you’ve enjoyed looking at my ‘makes’ once again, don’t forget to click the link below and have a look at the other peoples ideas on this bloghop
Did you check out the other blogs last week? Well, we are doing this for the whole of October so check in every week for more. Its fab to see other peoples ideas, even with the same papers it can look so different. We hope it gives you some inspiration to use or buy papers….I know for sure I’m a bit of a hoarder!
This week I’ve used Pattern Play DSP for the two card I’ve made specifically for this blog hop. They use a fabulous range of bright and cheerful colours, great for both Male and Female cards.
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The first card I made uses Night of Navy for all the mat layers, Stitched Triangle Dies, Night of Navy (from the co ordinating ribbon set) and Daffodil Delight Ribbon and the sentiment is from Happiest of Birthdays stamp set. Not sure the stitching shows up too well in the triangles on her, but I think it adds some lovely interest.
The second card uses Calypso Coral as the mat layer and all the paper is the oddments from previous cards made. The sentiment is also from Happiest of Birthdays stamp set and stamped in Coastal Cabana ink.
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